Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-04
EDUCATIONAL.
rHE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD And
THE PUBLIC LANDS.
The New cspitol-The Late Municipal
2leetions-A Shooting ARRAY
Probable Fatal Assault.
rsrecial ,elerram % ,hs nIsp.tch.i

tSIftldi ttNEFatN 70 uls DtsphtCu+l
RALEIGH, n. O., May 3.-The State
Poard of Education met to-day. The
report of State-Engineer Lewis was
read in regard TO the work on canals
IN public lands in Hyde county. His
report proved very satisfactory to the
board. The report of Captain Stamps,
president Of the Board OF Directors Of
the penitentiary, was also read. IL
covered the matter of increasing the con-
wet force on the public land improve
ments, and stated it would probably be
impossible at present TO furnish over
1875 convicts in addition TO the number
already there, but that all that could be
SO used would be furnished.
The Council OF State met to-day in
the Governors Office and considered
the matter Of heating the Capitol and
other public buildings near it, and also
the matter of furnishing water-pipes,
&c. Auditor Roberts was instructed TO
invite proposals.
The new Board OF Aldermen of this
city met to-day, and its members We're
sworn in. II then adjourned until next
Friday night without electing mayor.
The election returns came in to-day
from several points. Joseph z. Cald-
we'll was elected mayor of Statesvilie by
fifty.one majority. The Republicans
carried Asheville by a hundred votes.
They also carried all the wards in the
town Of Greenville. At Durham j. F.
Freeland was elected mayor, and the
old Board OF Aldermen were reelected.
News has been received here of a
shooting affair at the town OF Green
vile, wherein John Moore, an attorney,
was shot in the shoulder and badly
hurt. The quarrel grew out of dis
pute about a game OF cards.
In Craven county Bryan Ives, white
man. was struck on the headby negro
named Henderson, and perhaps fatally
injured Henderson is in jail.
THE NEY CASE AGAIN.
Rev. Mr.. Weston, assistant rector of
Christ church, this city, went to
Rowan county last night to be present
at the opening of p. $. Ney's grave to-
dav. MIR. Weston has been for some
wears engaged in collecting material for
a history of Ney, and will probably go
to France to collect more. He regards
il as very singular that in the life of
Ney, as prepared by his son, the ac-
count ends with the battle of Ulm and
goes no further, although it was pro-
missed, and is stated in the preface of
the work, that the history should be
complete.
NEWS NOTES HERE AND THERE.
The investigation of the management
Of the Asheville and SpaTtanburg rail
way, which began to-day, by the
South Carolina Railway Commission,
will be watched with interest.
A prominent Odd-Fellow said to-day
that the session of the Grand Lodge of
that order which begins here the 10th
instant will be the most interesting in
its history, aud Will show more ex-
tensiye work.
The Bingham Cadet battalion, four
companies, will be at Raleigh May
10th, it is now positively decided.
There will be about $50 cadets in the
ranks. Arriving here early in the
morning of the 10th on special train,
the battalion will drill, and then will
have company competitive drills for a
prize-h flag. In the afternoon the bat
TALON will participate in the memorial
day parade. 1t will be under the com
mand of Captain Wygant, United
States army. For some years past
these prize-drills have been held, but
always at the school. The battalion
visits Raleigh at the special invitation
of Mayor Dodd and Marshal j. B.
Hill, in charge of the memorial-day
exercises.
The plan of holding farmers insti-
flutes meets with special favor. DIR.
Dabney, State Chemist, has just attend
ed one at High Point, and is DESTROYS
that the Wake-county farmers should
attend one at Raleigh. Steps will be
taken TO hold one as soon as possible.
DIR. Dabney says that the increase of
such institutes is a mere question OF
time. He finds in his tours about the
State q remarkable increase in agricul-
tural information, one of the first and
best effects of which is desire for
more.
Assurances are now given that
Raleigh is at once to have good depot
accommodations, both for freight and
passengers, by the North Carolina road.
The depot will be constructed jointly
by the North Carolina railroad and the
Seaboard railroad, and will be spacious
and well designed.
The Goldsboro' people are particu-
larry pleased at the ratification at yes
terday's election of the new graded
school bill there. The towns are fall
ing in line on this important question.
in which the State Superintendent of
Pablo instruction takes such an inter
est and always does so much to further.